Wow, that was awesome! You just made life easier for me and I thank you for that.

I think meeting with you before I went on the air really helped and I truly appreciate your feedback. I look forward to developing my relationship with all our viewers and YOU will only make me better!

You are a key part of our team. Thank you!

You are a delight and I had a ball working with you.

Thank you so much for your work. I know it is the beginning of what will make a difference for our talent.

Thank you a million. You were tremendous in helping me think through the craft of performing on camera. The hour with you was very valuable.

Sitting with Tony for just an hour is worth an eternity in my career. The guy is an awesome teacher.

Your honesty tempered with sensitivity made it a lot easier to hear the criticism. You are clearly a humane and skilled communicator.

I have to tell you we are receiving great results from your coaching. Our anchors have really improved their connection with each other. It's amazing.

Ratings are up. Viewers are noticing. The anchors get it. And it's all a result of your work with our team along with management's intervention. Getting tangible results kicks ass!

Having worked with quite a few consultants, I can assuredly say this was my most gratifying experience yet.

Another great month. Thank you for all your help with our talent. It's made a big difference.

We’ve known for a long time that how you sit and stand on air is a big deal, because it an make a big difference in the impression you make on viewers. Researchers call this display behavior, and we instinctively rely on it to identify who has the power and authority in the room and who doesn’t. Now research is suggesting that it may be an even bigger deal than we thought because of the profound effect it has on the way you feel about yourself — and on how you perform as a result of that.

The Look of Power

In a recent interview with CNN, Harvard researcher Amy Cuddy put it this way:

“When it comes to power, the mind shapes the body, a finding supported by extensive peer-reviewed science. This, to most of us, is not surprising. But what os surprising, when it comes to power is that the body also shapes the mind. Dana Carney (UC Berkley) and I, both experimental social psychologists, have conducted research showing that adopting these postures — “power posing” — actually causes people to become more powerful…”(more…)

Standing to deliver as a solo anchor is one thing. Working on your feet with a coanchor is its own special challenge. While it’s not the easiest thing to look comfortable on your own, the challenge is somehow compounded when you have to look comfortable with someone else.

The Tandem Tango: Hannah Storm and Stage Steele

Few pull it off as consistently or effectively as ESPN’s Hannah Storm, seen in the clip above working with another tremendously talented communicator, Sage Steele.

There are a number of things that make this team so effective on their feet.

In a recent New York Times column, David Brooks describes seventy-something Phillip Leakey as gripped by the sort of “compulsive curiosity” that causes a bay to take something that doesn’t make send and “become instantly absorbed; using all her abilities — taste, smell, force — to figure out how it fits in with the world.”

Food for Thought

I wish we could describe more anchors that way. We know talent who are as experienced and polished as any professional on earth. They know how to dress and they know how to move. Their voices are perfectly modulated. They are warm and witty in the cross-talk. They are, in fact, everything you could possibly want on-the-air — except curious. And I just don’t mean politely curious, which is the kind of curiosity showcased in the sanitized, premeditated anchor/reporter exchanges that pepper many newscasts. I mean I-really-need-to-know-and-I-won’t-stop-until-I-get-an-answer curious. I mean getting-to-the-truth-of-this-is-more-important-than-making-sure-everyone-looks-good curious. I mean a need-to-know that’s forceful enough to trump almost every other imperative we assign to the production of newscasts. (more…)

Our Team

Barry Nash

Barry has been coaching television news and sports talent at all levels since 1982. Every night around the world, millions of people get their news from anchors and reporters he has trained and consulted.

Tony Martinez

Tony is an award-winning journalist and a master coach. In addition to his extensive work with news and sports talent, he leads our work with Spanish-language newscasts and coaches MMJs.

Barrett Nash

Barrett is a performance coach and visual image specialist, She is an especially good resource when improving the look of your team is a priority.

Jonathan Knopf

Jonathan is a veteran newsroom manager and coach. He understands how much performance depends on the people who support it, and he works as effectively with producers and writers as he does with talent.

Jenni Steck

Jenni specializes in the development and care of the speaking voice. Contact her especially when you have concerns or questions about the way your talent sound and read.

Patty Pressley

Patty is our long-time office manager. When you have an administrative question for us, she'll have an answer.

WE COACH ONLINE

When you have an immediate need, we can respond faster than ever. When your resources are limited, we can work with your team without incurring travel expense. And if we are visiting your station regularly, we can followup more powerfully than ever before.

All you need on your end is a computer with high-speed internet access and a camera. We take care of the rest.
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COACHING FOR SPANISH-LANGUAGE TALENT

All of our services are also available of Spanish-language news and sports talent and for the news and sportscasts that they serve. Contact Barry Nash or our Spanish- language coach, Tony Martinez, for more information.
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WE’RE IN THE NEWS

February 3, 2016

The New Yorker
Magazine sits in on one of Barry Nash's sessions with NFL Hall-of-Famer, Jerome Bettis.

By Barry Nash

ABOUT US

We are a team of coaches who specialize in the training and development of television news, weather and sports talent.

In all cases, our goal is to provide the resources talent need to achieve "Breakthrough Performance" -- delivery that engages the minds and hearts of viewers, demands their attention, and inspires their loyalty.